Emergency crews worked to remove more than two dozen gallons of mineral oil that was released into Mosquito Creek in Niles.

The Senate on Thursday ordered an urgent probe into the cause of a recent fire outbreak and oil spill from Manifold Well 8/ ...

LOWER BURRELL, Pa. — Crews worked Tuesday to clean what they could of a hydraulic oil spill that happened at the Braeburn ...

Advances in nanotechnology may provide solutions to oil spill cleanups in coastal regions that are more effective, safer and work much faster than current methods, according to a new paper. The paper ...

Shell reported an oil spill on Tuesday at Ogale, near Port Harcourt, after a saver pit overflowed during flushing operations ...

Heather Houk was at work one December afternoon when her husband called to say they had to evacuate their house. By the time ...

Two weeks into the new year, and four weeks after the oil spill, Russian President Vladimir Putin acknowledged the extent of the disaster and dispatched senior officials to deal with Russia’s largest ...

Local residents have been left heartbroken after breeding swans, who live in Bumblehole Nature Reserve, were relocated ...

Up to 5,000 tonnes of oil has now leaked, and media reports and official statements analysed by BBC Verify suggest the spill has spread across the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov. A senior Russian ...

A massive oil spill from a wellhead of Oil Mining Lease-15, a facility of the Nigerian National Petroleum Company Limited, has ignited a fire affecting aquatic life in Buguma in the Asari-Toru ...

Rwanda announced on Wednesday its first oil discovery, confirming 13 reservoirs in Lake Kivu, which borders the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). “We have oil,” said Francis Kamanzi ...

This is one of the largest sewage spills in California in recent months. Sewage spills pose serious public health risks because they contain harmful bacteria, viruses and parasites that can cause ...